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10 things you didn't know about poker
The game we know as poker has been around in various forms for two hundred years or more. It’s spread to every part of the world (and since Big One for One Drop organizer Guy Laliberté spent eleven days on the International Space Station, it may well have spread beyond the world). It’s picked up a lot of history along the way, and the swell of popularity of the game in the past dozen years means nobody ever knows everything about poker. It is, after all, a game of imperfect information.

Top News – Main Event Kicks Off, Full Tilt For Sale
The biggest, the longest and the most popular poker tournament of them all – the World Series of Poker has reached its final stage with almost all of the events, except one finished and with 55 bracelets out of 58 already given away. However, the last part is the most exciting – the 2011 WSOP Main Event kicked off yesterday and will run until July 19th. Long after all the other events are over, the Main Event will see thousands of players at the tables in pursuit of the world's most prestigious poker trophy – the Main Event bracelet.

Top News – WSOP Brakes Records, PokerStars Announce New Poker Tour
And so the 42nd annual World Series of Poker has reached its midway point which means we're half way there to the most important poker tournament of the year – the 2011 WSOP Main Event. However, that's still a month away so we will just wait until the right moment to fill your heads with all the blabbering. Especially when we have some interesting World Series news to report about the things that are happening at the moment (or at least happened in the past week).

Top News – 2011 WSOP Takes Off, Ivey – Out
So, of course, the biggest news of the week is that the 42nd annual World Series of Poker has finally kicked-off on Tuesday. However, one person, that you're all familiar with had stole WSOP's thunder by announcing he was not going to play the tournament due to Full Tilt Poker not making payouts to their users and filed a law suit against Tiltware – Tilt's software and marketing company.

Top News – Blue Monday and Another Title for Seidel
It was not the week that one could call good for online poker, actually, it was quite the contrary. It started with the second part of Black Friday – the Blue Monday, 10 online poker and betting domains were seized along with 11 back accounts and 3 people were indicted. Among the ten domains was a well-known online poker site – DoylesRoom. Suddenly Brunson parting with the room made much more sense.

Top News – Maria Ho Finds New Job, Brunson Leaves DoylesRoom
More than a month had passed since the events of 04.15 and the world of online poker is healing its wounds and trying to recover after one of the biggest impacts it had to experience in the short years of its existence. And while the US-based poker players are getting their funds back from PokerStars and waiting for the same to happen at Full Tilt, UB and Absolute, poker is still played both live and online and players are trying to adjust to the changed conditions.

Top News – Chili Reinvent Online Poker, WSOP Announce Rematches
This week there's been some poker action both live and online and some of it is still going on, to tell you all about it is OnlinePoker10's new edition of Top News. First we've got the results from the Slovakian capital Bratislava where a World Poker Tour event took place. We also have the mid-way chip counts from the EPT event that's currently underway in Berlin, Germany where during Day 3 the Frenchman Fabrice Soulier is leading the field with more than 1 million in chips.

Top News – Zynga Poker Hosts Live Event, EPT Snowfest Down to Final Table
Another poker week is almost over which means it's time to look back and see what happened in the past 7 days and tell you all about it. The tournament of the week is of course the European Poker Tour Snowfest which is still underway in Austria. The final table of 8 is set with Kevin Vandersmissen from Belgium leading the way.

Top News – Seidel Tops All-Time Money List, Full Tilt Poker Goes Live
So the past few weeks in poker saw some big live tournament action with as many as three big events crowning their winners, rewarding trophies and huge cash prizes. Erik Seidel broke the record after winning the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, adding $750,000 to his lifetime tournament winnings and climbing to the #1 spot in poker's all-time money list with a total of $14.7 million in his account.

Top News – Mortensen Falls Short of the WPT Record, US States Seek to Legalize Online Poker
The weekly edition of Top News bringing you the most prominent poker stories from the past 7 days is back and we've got something we want to share with you. First, of course, are the EPT Copenhagen results which we promised you to come back with last week. Another big tournament to take place this week was WPT LA Poker Classic which had finished just a couple of hours ago and we're bringing you the fresh news from the felt. There's been some major development in online poker in the US as New Jersey and Iowa have introduced its regulation bills.

Top News – EPT Takes Over Copenhagen, Mizzi Cheats Again?
Another week of poker is coming to an end and yet again Online Poker 10 brings you a few of the top stories of the week so that you would know what's been going on. John Racener says that Sorel Mizzi cheated him while they were playing Chinese poker at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The UB Poker pro Shaun Deeb decided to put it all out in the open by posting the story on TwoPlusTwo. 888 Poker have launched a new feature allowing players to use webcams while playing poker online which means they will be able to experience the more live-like poker gaming.

Top News – Big Comebacks, Rewards and Promotions
Last week saw some big things in poker and we're here to tell you all about it. The weekend in Paris was hot as all the top poker pros have gathered in French capital for the 10th annual European Poker Awards. The ceremony took place at the Queenie Club just a few steps away form the famous Aviation Club.

Top News – Isildur Is The Word, PokerStars Bring Home Games Online
This week we've got some very important poker news to report so let's head straight for the titles. Two largest poker sites PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have announced the launch of some new site features that in their own words are both going to “revolutionize online poker as we know it”. Revolution or not, but the new toys are definitely worth your attention. PokerStars introduced the beta version of Home Games – the ability to start your own poker club on Stars and invite your friends over to play.

Top News – Duke and Hellmuth Leave UB, Jungleman12 Scores $4.9 Million in 2010
Hello there and welcome back to OnlinePoker10 in the year 2011. Christmas and New Year's was loads of fun in the snow, but now it's time to come back to the ever-exciting world of poker to see what's been going on lately on and off the felt. Actually, there's been a lot of things that happened in poker during the holidays and we're here to tell you all about it in this week's Top News! First, of course is UB: they've bid farewell to they're two major pros and the icons of the site Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke, who has also got engaged on Christmas.

Top News – Romanello Victorious in Prague, Hellmuth's Gonna Dance with the Stars
And we're back with the top poker news to tell you about all the most important things that happened in the poker world last week. With just 4 days left til Christmas poker is still at large and no one stops playing, big poker events continue to give away millions in cash and the 2010 best are announced. So if you want to know what's happening in poker at the moment, then you're in a right place – OnlinePoker10 is here to bring you the top poker news of the week and quench your thirst for poker knowledge.

Top News – Poker Taught in High School, Rousso's Lamborghini on eBay
Lots of news this week: EPT Barcelona has a new champion – a 22-year old (they just keep getting younger and younger) from Stockholm Sweden busted five of his final table opponents to get the €825,000 first-place cash prize. Last week we told you about Peter Eastgate selling his WSOP bracelet on eBay and now you can get yourself a pre-owned Lamborghini Gallardo which used to be Vanessa Rousso's ride. We will also tell you about a new and very exciting way to learn math at school by playing poker with your teacher and fellow students.

Top News – WSOP Bracelet to Become a Dog Collar and the Latest from EPT Barcelona
OnlinePoker10's Top News is back to once again bring you the hottest and the most exclusive poker news from both on and off the felt. Full Tilt Poker have finally launched Rush Poker for mobile devices – a feature which was at first available only in beta version and only to Full Tilt Black Card members, well it is no more.